Don't Panic Geocast

By John Leeman and Shannon Dulin

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments. ... more

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July 15, 2022Episode 336 - "Chopstick Breaking Sound"
This week we talk about sounds from the Aurora and strange atmospheric conditions that create it.
Sound producing mechanism in the temperature inversion layer and its sensitivity to geomagnetic activity
Fun Paper Friday
What can we do to fight a fierce predator? The cat!
Cecchetti, Martina, et al. "Provision of high meat content food and object play reduce predation of wild animals by domestic cats Felis catus." Current biology 31.5 (2021): 1107-1111.
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42min
July 01, 2022Episode 335 - "Fish with a Ray Gun"
Listen to singing ice!
Fun Paper Friday
Science makes you feel stupid and that's okay!
Schwartz, Martin A. "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." Journal of Cell Science 121.11 (2008): 1771-1771.
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27min
June 25, 2022Episode 334 - "Rock Concert"
This week we're talking about ringing rocks and why we think they sound just like cast iron bells.
Video of Ringing Rocks in PA
Fun Paper Friday
Krioukov, Dmitri. "The Proof of Innocence." arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0162 (2012).
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June 11, 2022Episode 333 - "Sandphony"
How can some wind and sand make booming, singing, and wailing sounds? Find out what we know this week and then dive into geo-economics with a short and graphical fun paper!
Example of singing sand
Fun Paper Friday
Smith, Gregor W. "Japan's Phillips curve looks like Japan." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 40.6 (2008): 1325-1326.
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June 03, 2022Episode 332 - "Caliche"
If you're new in the field, caliche might fool you the first few times you encounter it. This week we talk about what it is, how it forms, and why you should always carry your hammer and chisel!
Fun Paper Friday
Knuth, Donald E. "The toilet paper problem." The American Mathematical Monthly 91.8 (1984): 465-470.
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May 20, 2022 EPISODE 331 - "GUESS AGAIN DUMMY" RYAN MAY
This week Dr. Ryan May joins us to talk about life as a scientific software developer and his career path from radars to radiosondes and more!
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1h 34min
May 14, 2022Episode 330 - "Blamo"
This week we talk about fracture of toughness of materials or how resistant they are to cracking.
Fun Paper Friday
Morrill, Kathleen, et al. "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes." Science 376.6592 (2022): eabk0639.
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1h 6min
May 07, 2022Episode 329 - "Granite Annulus"
Hardness, toughness, and brittleness are all unique, but related quantities. In this week's show we explore how they each relate to the atomic structure of the rocks and what they mean for us as geologists.
Fun Paper Friday
Can the ways flamingos pick a mate help us discover new drugs?
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aminael, et al. "From flamingo dance to (desirable) drug discovery: a nature-inspired approach." Drug discovery today 22.10 (2017): 1489-1502.
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April 23, 2022Episode 328 - "Bouma"
Bouma Sequence
Lowe Sequence
Fun Paper Friday
Nikolić, Hrvoje. "Would Bohr be born if Bohm were born before Born?." American Journal of Physics 76.2 (2008): 143-146.
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57min
April 15, 2022Episode 327 - "Delta Tesseract"
What happens when rivers meet oceans? All kinds of fun sedimentary processes that build deltas. Learn more this week along with a discussion of one man's favorite boulders.
Fun Paper Friday
Beaty, Chester B. "Great big boulders I have known." Geology 17.4 (1989): 349-352.
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